Page 89 - An essay on the diseasesof the jaws, and their treatment

APPENDIX. I EEGRET that the Catalogue of Cases which 19 here appended, is neither so extensive nor so full as I could wish. It is evident that many of the eminent Surgeons whose names appear in these Tables, must have treated many cases of Disease of the Jaws, for every one that I have been able to give them credit for ; while many others, whose names are not even mentioned, could very I trust, however, that of the materially have added to my list. published cases, but few have been allowed to escape notice. I intentionally left the Glasgow cases to the last, in the hope that the vast resources of the Royal Infirmary Journals, in which annually upwards of 3000 cases, exclusive of contagious diseases and out-patients, are minutely recorded, might furnish many ad- ditional cases. But I have been disappointed. Owing to the most culpable irregularity on the part of some of the office-bearers of the institution, the Surgical Journals have, with the exception of some half-dozen volumes, disappeared, and thus a mass of very valuable medical records is lost to the profession and the public. When I was dresser in the Infirmary, under Dr. M. S. Buchanan, several highly interesting cases of jaw-disease oc- curred, in more than one of which amputation was deemed expe- dient, and was successfully performed, both by Dr. Buchanan and Dr. Macfarlane. It would have given me much pleasure to add these cases to my catalogue, but in the absence of any re- corded history of them to refer to, I was prevented doing so, by the fear of committing some inaccuracy. F 2